"list of goals. In researching the role, Nicholson visited a Los Angeles hospital to see how cancer patients coped with their illnesses. Nicholson's next film role saw him reunite with James L. Brooks, director of ""Terms of Endearment"", ""Broadcast News"", and ""As Good as It Gets"", for a supporting role as Paul Rudd's character's father in the 2010 film ""How Do You Know"". It had been widely reported in subsequent years that Nicholson had retired from acting because of memory loss, but in a September 2013 ""Vanity Fair"" article, Nicholson clarified that he did not consider himself retired, merely that"
"predicted upon its release that it would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1983. In his movie guide, Leonard Maltin awarded the film a rare four-star rating, calling it a ""Wonderful mix of humor and heartache"", and concluded the film was ""Consistently offbeat and unpredictable, with exceptional performances by all three stars"". The film won five Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards: A sequel to the film, ""The Evening Star"" (1996), in which MacLaine and Nicholson reprised their roles, was a critical and commercial failure. Terms of Endearment Terms of Endearment is a 1983"
"53rd Academy Awards The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. David Lynch's ""The Elephant Man"" and Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"", with eight nominations each, had the most nominations of this year's films. Their nominations included Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Michael Apted's ""Coal Miner's Daughter"" received seven nominations while ""Ordinary People"" and ""Tess"""
"order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 53rd Academy Awards The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. David Lynch's ""The Elephant Man"" and Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"", with eight nominations each, had the most nominations of this year's films. Their nominations included"
"""The Postman Always Rings Twice"" (1981), ""Reds"" (1981), where Nicholson portrays the writer Eugene O'Neill with a quiet intensity, ""Prizzi's Honor"" (1985), ""The Witches of Eastwick"" (1987), ""Broadcast News"" (1987), and ""Ironweed"" (1987). Three Oscar nominations also followed (""Reds"", ""Prizzi's Honor"", and ""Ironweed""). John Huston, who directed ""Prizzi's Honor"", said of Nicholson's acting, ""He just illuminates the book. He impressed me in one scene after another; the movie is composed largely of first takes with him."" In the 1989 ""Batman"" movie, Nicholson played the psychotic murderer and villain The Joker. The film was an international smash hit, and a lucrative"
"Third Kind"" – Joe Alves 1979: ""Alien"" – Michael Seymour 1980: ""The Elephant Man"" – Stuart Craig 1981: ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" – Norman Reynolds 1982: ""Blade Runner"" – Lawrence G. Paull 1983: ""La Traviata"" – Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli 1985: ""Brazil"" – Norman Garwood 1986: ""A Room with a View"" – Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta 1987: ""Radio Days"" – Santo Loquasto 1988: """" – Dean Tavoularis 1989: ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" – Dante Ferretti 1990: ""Dick Tracy"" – Richard Sylbert 1991: ""Edward Scissorhands"" – Bo Welch 1992: ""Strictly Ballroom"" – Catherine Martin 1993: ""The Piano"""
"1991, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being ""culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"" and it is frequently listed as one of the greatest films of all time. At the 47th Academy Awards, it was nominated for 11 Oscars, with Towne winning Best Original Screenplay. The Golden Globe Awards honored it for Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. The American Film Institute placed it second among its top ten mystery films in 2008. A sequel, ""The Two Jakes"", was released in 1990, again starring Nicholson,"
"since 1977. Bruce Nicholson Bruce Nicholson is a special effects artist who received the Special Achievement Academy Award in 1980 for the visual effects of the film ""The Empire Strikes Back"", which he shared with Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund and Dennis Muren. He won his first Oscar for ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" at the 1981 in the category of Best Visual Effects. Which he shared his award with Richard Edlund, Kit West and Joe Johnston. He got one more Oscar nomination, at the 1982 for the film ""Poltergeist"", which lost to ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"". He has worked on nearly"
"Bruce Nicholson Bruce Nicholson is a special effects artist who received the Special Achievement Academy Award in 1980 for the visual effects of the film ""The Empire Strikes Back"", which he shared with Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund and Dennis Muren. He won his first Oscar for ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" at the 1981 in the category of Best Visual Effects. Which he shared his award with Richard Edlund, Kit West and Joe Johnston. He got one more Oscar nomination, at the 1982 for the film ""Poltergeist"", which lost to ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"". He has worked on nearly 50 films"
"handle the role, saying, ""There is James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, and Henry Fonda. After that, who is there but Jack Nicholson?"" During the filming, Nicholson struck up what became a lifelong friendship with co-star Garfunkel. When he visited Los Angeles, Garfunkel would stay at Nicholson's home in a room Nicholson jokingly called ""the Arthur Garfunkel Suite"". Other Nicholson roles included Hal Ashby's ""The Last Detail"" (1973), with Randy Quaid, for which Nicholson won for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and he was nominated for his third Oscar and a Golden Globe. Television journalist David Gilmour writes"
"2"" (2011), for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award at the 2012 ceremony. John Richardson (special effects designer) John Richardson (born 1946 in England) is a British special effects supervisor. He is best known for his work on the ""James Bond"" film series (at least ""Casino Royale"", ""Moonraker"", ""Octopussy"", ""A View to a Kill"" and ""Die Another Day""), all the ""Harry Potter"" film series (2001-2011), ""A Bridge Too Far"" (1977) and ""Aliens"" (1986). For the latter, he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 1987 ceremony. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Special"
"the Edge"" (1990) starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine; ""Primary Colors"" (1998) starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson; and ""The Birdcage"" (1996), an American remake of the 1978 French film ""La Cage aux Folles"" starring Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest. Both ""The Birdcage"" and ""Primary Colors"" were written by Elaine May, Nichols' comedy partner earlier in his career. Other films directed by Nichols include ""Regarding Henry"" (1991) starring Harrison Ford and ""Wolf"" (1994) starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer. When he was honored by Lincoln Center in 1999 for his life's work, Elaine May—speaking once again"
"After several documentaries and feature films like ""Black Beauty"" (1971), ""Bloody Kids"" (1978), ""The Game Keeper"" (1980), ""Babylon"" (1980) and ""Angel"" (1982) he became notable for more ambitious works for which he was critically acclaimed. In 1983 he received his first BAFTA nomination for the Bill Forsyth film ""Local Hero"" and only a year later won his first Academy Award for the film ""The Killing Fields"" about the genocide in Cambodia. He continued his work with helmer Roland Joffe and he won his second Oscar in 1986 with the historical drama ""The Mission"". He also shot a television play titled"
"which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and ""Heaven & Earth"" (1993). Stone's other notable works include the Salvadoran Civil War-based drama ""Salvador"" (1986); the financial drama ""Wall Street"" (1987) and its 2010 sequel """"; the Jim Morrison biographical film ""The Doors"" (1991); the satirical black comedy crime film ""Natural Born Killers (1994);"" and a trilogy of films based on the American Presidency—""JFK"" (1991), ""Nixon"" (1995) and ""W."" (2008). His latest film is ""Snowden"" (2016). Many of Stone's films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century, and as such were considered contentious at the times of"
"who understands Method acting better academically than I do—or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny, nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I guess."" Although he garnered no Academy Award for Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's ""The Shining"" (1980), it remains one of his more significant roles. He was Kubrick's first choice to play the lead role, although the book's author, Stephen King, wanted the part played by more of an ""everyman"". However, Kubrick as director won the argument, and described Nicholson's acting quality as being ""on a par with the greatest stars of"
"The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film) The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1981 American drama film directed by Bob Rafelson and written by David Mamet (in his screenwriting debut). Starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, it is the fourth adaptation of the 1934 novel by James M. Cain. The film was shot in Santa Barbara, California. Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson) a drifter, stops at a depression-era rural California diner for a meal and ends up working there. The diner is operated by a young, beautiful woman, Cora Smith (Jessica Lange), and her much older husband, Nick Papadakis (John"
"(1970), followed by ""Carnal Knowledge"" (1971) starring Jack Nicholson, Ann-Margret, Art Garfunkel and Candice Bergen. The latter film was highly controversial upon release because of the casual and blunt depiction of sexual intercourse. In Georgia, a theatre manager was convicted in 1972 of violating the state's obscenity statutes by showing the film, a conviction later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in ""Jenkins v. Georgia"". Nichols returned to Broadway to direct Neil Simon's ""The Prisoner of Second Avenue"" in 1971. The play won Nichols another Tony Award for Best Director. In 1973, Nichols directed a revival of Anton Chekhov's ""Uncle"
"variations on his tired dilettante act; and Rock Hudson's beefcake charmer has all the necessary physical ingredients for success."" The film currently holds a 92% ""Fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Awards and Nominations Honors In 1980, a sequel was originally planned for the film, set 20 years after the original film ended. The story involved Jan and Brad having their first daughter (who would have been played by Kristy McNichol), and getting a divorce, which allows Jonathan (who would've been played again by Tony Randall) to have another chance of proposing to Jan. She schemes to get Brad back, while"
"in the labor union leadership. In 1979 he wrote, directed and starred in the sequel to his 1976 hit, ""Rocky II"" (replacing John G. Avildsen, who won an Academy Award for directing the first film), which also became a major success, grossing million. In 1981, he starred alongside Michael Caine in ""Escape to Victory"", a sports drama in which he plays a prisoner of war involved in a Nazi propaganda soccer game. That same year, he starred in the thriller ""Nighthawks"", in which he plays a New York city cop who plays a cat-and-mouse game with a foreign terrorist, played"
"and Laurence Olivier (1930s–1970s) have been nominated for an acting (lead or supporting) Academy Award in five different decades. With three Oscar wins, he also ties with Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ingrid Bergman, and Meryl Streep for the second-most Oscar wins in acting categories. Only Katharine Hepburn, with four Oscars, won more. In 2012, Nicholson co-presented the Academy Award for Best Picture with First Lady Michelle Obama. This ceremony marked the eighth time he has presented the Academy Award for Best Picture (1972, 1977, 1978, 1990, 1993, 2006, 2007, and 2012). Nicholson is an active and voting member of the"
"1983, NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Game would take place on the Monday following the Academy Awards. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 54th Academy Awards The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1982, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson. ""Chariots of Fire"" was the surprise winner (with a leading 12 nominations, ""Reds"" had been expected"
"Animal House"" in July 1978. It was the second of three films directed by Nicholson, the first was 1971's ""Drive, He Said"" and the third was the ""Chinatown"" sequel ""The Two Jakes"", released in 1990. This marks the first film in which Nicholson appears as the primary actor while directing. He does not appear in ""Drive, He Said"", but did star in and direct ""The Two Jakes"". It was not a hit upon release in 1978 with critics or audiences. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 71% rating based on 14 reviews. On Metacritic, it holds a"
"1985 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 20th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1986, honored the best filmmaking of 1985. 1. Ran<br> 2. ""Prizzi's Honor""<br> 2. ""The Purple Rose of Cairo"" 1. John Huston – ""Prizzi's Honor""<br> 2. Akira Kurosawa – ""Ran"" 1. Jack Nicholson – ""Prizzi's Honor""<br> 2. William Hurt – ""Kiss of the Spider Woman""<br> 1. Vanessa Redgrave – ""Wetherby""<br> 2. Jessica Lange – ""Sweet Dreams""<br> 3. Norma Aleandro – ""The Official Story"" (""La historia oficial"") 1. John Gielgud – ""Plenty"" and ""The Shooting Party""<br> 2. William Hickey – ""Prizzi's Honor""<br> 3."
"Woman"" (1988) and ""Crimes and Misdemeanors"" (1989); Richard Attenborough's ""Chaplin"" (1992); Nora Ephron's ""Sleepless in Seattle"" (1993); and Lasse Hallström's ""What's Eating Gilbert Grape"" (1993). Nykvist won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for two of his films: ""Cries and Whispers"" (1973), and ""Fanny and Alexander"" (1982), both of which were Bergman films. At the 9th Guldbagge Awards in 1973 he won the Special Achievement award for his work on ""Cries and Whispers"". He was also nominated for a Cinematography Oscar for ""The Unbearable Lightness of Being"" (1988), and in the category of Best Foreign Language Film for ""The Ox"""
"Academy Award nominations (19) without a win. He currently lives with his wife Barbara in Glendale, California. [incomplete listing] William Nicholson (sound engineer) William M. Nicholson (born November 18, 1937) is a sound re-recording mixer at NBC Universal studios in Los Angeles, California. During his lengthy career, he has received numerous awards and nominations, including 5 Emmy awards, 22 Emmy nominations, 2 Cinema Audio Society nominations, and an Academy Award nomination for Martin Scorsese's 1980 film Raging Bull. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Nicholson was born in San Antonio, Texas and"
"usually in the stereotypical role of a thug. Keitel played a corrupt police officer in the 1983 thriller ""Copkiller"" (co-starring musician John Lydon), before taking supporting roles in the romantic drama ""Falling in Love"" (1984), starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, and Brian De Palma's mobster comedy ""Wise Guys"" (1986), starring Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo. Keitel played Judas in Martin Scorsese's controversial ""The Last Temptation of Christ"" (1988) and co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the ""Chinatown"" sequel ""The Two Jakes"" (1990), directed by Jack Nicholson. Ridley Scott cast Keitel as the sympathetic policeman in ""Thelma & Louise"" in"
"he received his second Academy Award nomination, this time as Best Actor in ""All That Jazz"", in which he played a fictionalized version of the film's director and co-writer Bob Fosse. In 1983 he starred in ""Blue Thunder"", a John Badham film about a fictitious technologically advanced prototype attack helicopter which provided security over the city of Los Angeles during the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. This was followed by a role as Dr. Heywood Floyd in Peter Hyams' ""2010"", a 1984 sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction classic """", in which William Sylvester originated the role of Floyd. One"
"1983 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 18th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1984, honored the best filmmaking of 1983. 1. The Night of the Shooting Stars (La notte di San Lorenzo)<br> 2. ""Berlin Alexanderplatz""<br> 2. ""Fanny and Alexander"" (""Fanny och Alexander"") 1. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani – ""The Night of the Shooting Stars (La notte di San Lorenzo"")<br> 2. Philip Kaufman – ""The Right Stuff""<br> 3. Ingmar Bergman – ""Fanny and Alexander"" (""Fanny och Alexander"") 1. Gérard Depardieu – ""Danton"" and ""The Return of Martin Guerre (Le retour de Martin Guerre"")<br> 2. Robert"
"male actors to win three Academy Awards. Nicholson is one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s; the other is Michael Caine. He has won six Golden Globe Awards, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, at 57, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. He has had a number of high-profile relationships, most notably with Anjelica Huston and Rebecca Broussard, and was married to Sandra Knight from 1962 until their divorce"
"1975, with his role as Randle P. McMurphy in ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"". The movie was an adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel, and was directed by Miloš Forman and co-produced by Michael Douglas. Nicholson plays an anti-authoritarian patient at a mental hospital where he becomes an inspiring leader for the other patients. Playing one of the patients was Danny DeVito in an early role. Nicholson learned afterwards that DeVito grew up in the same area of New Jersey, and they knew many of the same people. The film swept the Academy Awards with nine nominations, and won the"
"1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 17th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 2 January 1983, honored the best filmmaking of 1982. 1. Tootsie<br> 2. ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial""<br> 3. ""Moonlighting"" 1. Steven Spielberg – ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial""<br> 2. Sydney Pollack – ""Tootsie""<br> 3. Jean-Jacques Beineix – ""Diva""<br> 3. Francesco Rosi – ""Three Brothers"" (""Tre fratelli"") 1. Dustin Hoffman – ""Tootsie""<br> 2. Ben Kingsley – ""Gandhi""<br> 3. Peter O'Toole – ""My Favorite Year"" 1. Meryl Streep – ""Sophie's Choice""<br> 2. Jessica Lange – ""Frances"" and ""Tootsie""<br> 3. Diane Keaton – ""Shoot the Moon"" 1. Mickey Rourke –"
"and ""Fire and Ice"" in 1983, as well as a boom in fairy tale-like fantasy films such as ""Ladyhawke"" (1985), ""The Princess Bride"" (1987), and ""Willow"" (1988). The 1980s also started a trend in mixing modern settings and action movie effects with exotic fantasy-like concepts. ""Big Trouble in Little China"" (1986), directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, combined humor, martial arts and classic Chinese folklore in a modern Chinatown setting. ""Highlander"", a film about immortal Scottish swordsmen, was released the same year. Jim Henson produced two iconic fantasy films in the 80s, the solemn ""The Dark Crystal"" and"
"of the 2015 Oscars, in anchor position. Nichols left a painting titled ""Horse with Groom"" by John Frederick Herring Sr. to his son Max Nichols. Mike Nichols Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theater director, producer, actor, and comedian. He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres and an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their acting experience. Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe, The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in"